By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-099
  • Project: Node Hierarchy (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x
  • Date: 2012-June-13
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery

Description

Node Hierarchy module allows for the creation of parent child relationships among nodes that can create a tree-like hierarchy of content.

The module doesn't sufficiently confirm user intent when reordering children nodes allowing a malicious user to trick a site admin to changing the desired hierarchy.

CVE: CVE-2012-2728

Versions affected

  • Node Hierarchy 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.5.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Node Hierarchy module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Node Hierarchy project page.

Reported by

Fixed by

Coordinated by

Contact and More Information

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